In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path

syzbot reported kmemleak as below:

BUG: memory leak
unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32):
comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430
[<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080
[<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0
[<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0
[<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of
ntfs_fill_super().
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

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Description In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path syzbot reported kmemleak as below: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81b16052>] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8164aaa7>] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [<ffffffff81626dd4>] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [<ffffffff81627e7c>] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [<ffffffff84593e14>] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [<ffffffff84600087>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().
Title fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Linux

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-01T11:45:24.652Z

Reserved: 2025-09-17T14:53:07.011Z

Link: CVE-2022-50451

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-01T12:15:38.050

Modified: 2025-10-01T12:15:38.050

Link: CVE-2022-50451

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